An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was killed today when a cement mixer struck his pickup truck along the same winding, hilly stretch of road in Beverly Hills where an LAPD officer was killed in March in a collision with a dump truck.
The crash, which happened at 1:53 p.m. in the 1000 block of Loma Vista Drive, also seriously injured the cement truck’s driver, who was taken to a hospital for treatment, Beverly Hills police Sgt. Max Subin said.
Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andy Smith confirmed the officer killed this afternoon was an LAPD veteran, but his name was not immediately released, nor was the station to which he was assigned.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, Subin said.
Los Angeles police Officer Nicholas Lee was killed on the same stretch of Loma Vista Drive on March 7 and another cement mixer slammed into several parked cars on the road last Friday, leaving the driver hospitalized with serious injuries.
Loma Vista Drive was expected to be closed to traffic between Doheny Road and Drury Lane through early Saturday as police investigated the latest crash, Subin said.
Beverly Hills police issued a statement after last Friday’s crash saying officers have increased commercial vehicle enforcement in the area and that the city was “developing stringent regulations to control truck traffic on high-risk streets through the construction permit process.”
The statement called it “a critical public safety issue” and said the Beverly Hills Police Department and other city departments “are aggressively working together to avoid future accidents.”
